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xScope, a multitouch pinch zoom browser

smacinskyjr said:
Have you tried the pin zoom? I personally like it much better than the +/-. to me it is much more Convenient than the +/- its like multitouch in one finger.
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Yeah, I still have my iTouch (dont know why...) I just like the convenience of the +/- buttons for one handed browsing.
 
One question--when I'm editing a text field where the text is longer than the displayed space of the text box, in order to move my cursor down to where I can type at the end of the text, I have to open the keyboard and use the d-pad. Maybe when you're in a text box you could swipe down or have arrows or something?
 
taylor,
Follow 'How to' at favorites page and give 'pin-zoom' (not pinch zoom) a try. Thanks!
The reason that the original zoom control is not included is that I couldn't figure out how to let webview receive focus back then (but now I guess I can but no time lately yet). I will mess with it later.
ttaylor0024 said:
Soo happy I switched to this! Love all the support! However I would still like the zoom +/- along with multi-touch like dolphin does :D
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You can swipe down usually I think?
droiiiiid said:
One question--when I'm editing a text field where the text is longer than the displayed space of the text box, in order to move my cursor down to where I can type at the end of the text, I have to open the keyboard and use the d-pad. Maybe when you're in a text box you could swipe down or have arrows or something?
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xScope said:
This is a classic situation where things get ambiguous.
In google's example, if you look at its code, it probably has something like 'hey, please display me across your screen 100%'. Fine, you load it and it spans 100%. Now you zoom. Then what? Whatever you zoom, google says it wants to span across your screen. You see? Now it is getting interesting... think about it :) Should the browser still offer page script to span page across screen or grant user's zoom gesture????
We rarely think about his with PC where zooming is not very often (I can't remember last time I zoomed a page on PC).
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Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing here, let me try to explain what I'm experiencing again. I go pretty much any Google page, zoom in, and after scrolling, it *zooms back out by itself.* This did not happen before the recent updates. Zoom stayed zoomed.

Isn't zooming a function of the browser? Like, does Google's code know when I'm zoomed in? Can it say, "screw your zoom, you must deal with our little links that are too hard to press with your big fingers, you poor fool"?

Maybe this is related to how, on the stock browser, there was never an option to zoom on Google pages?

I'm at work now so can't test on a decent browser, but if I zoom in (CTL+MouseWheelUp) on a Google page IE7, it stays zoomed after scrolling.

Can somebody else just zoom and scroll on some Google search results pages with xScope and see if they stay at the same zoom level? Am I the only one experiencing this/bothered by it?

Thanks!
 
Hello,
Other than obvious ones, what is your ranking of some of the most frequently used functions:

Candidates:
1. Forward
2. Show favorite list
3. Show history
4. Show tabs (where a list of pictures is shown so that a user can click to switch to or click X to remove. To be implemented in xScope)
5. Show files
6. Find text in page
7. Copy text

My ranking is:
2 > 4 > 3 > 1 > 5 > 7 > 6.
What do you guys think?

I have posted the same question on another forum as well.

Thanks
 
I am looking at the code changes. Nothing changed in handling page zooming part, strange.
Another not so related problem is that when navigate back, user likes to go to last scroll and zoom position. I am going to look at this and may be hard code a tracking system for it.
calbruc said:
Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing here, let me try to explain what I'm experiencing again. I go pretty much any Google page, zoom in, and after scrolling, it *zooms back out by itself.* This did not happen before the recent updates. Zoom stayed zoomed.

Isn't zooming a function of the browser? Like, does Google's code know when I'm zoomed in? Can it say, "screw your zoom, you must deal with our little links that are too hard to press with your big fingers, you poor fool"?

Maybe this is related to how, on the stock browser, there was never an option to zoom on Google pages?

I'm at work now so can't test on a decent browser, but if I zoom in (CTL+MouseWheelUp) on a Google page IE7, it stays zoomed after scrolling.

Can somebody else just zoom and scroll on some Google search results pages with xScope and see if they stay at the same zoom level? Am I the only one experiencing this/bothered by it?

Thanks!
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I'm still having trouble scrolling down to the end of editable text in order to respond. Most commonly happens when trying to comment on something. In particular, when I'm using the "" feature when using a message board to reply.

For example, try using the "" function when you respond to this on your phone and then try to slide down to the bottom of the quoted portion to reply.
 
OK
droiiiiid said:
I'm still having trouble scrolling down to the end of editable text in order to respond. Most commonly happens when trying to comment on something. In particular, when I'm using the "" feature when using a message board to reply.

For example, try using the ""insert text here function when you respond to this on your phone and then try to slide down to the bottom of the quoted portion to reply.
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When I downloaded the paid version, I've had just one hiccup that re-occurs. About half the time when I try to open xScope, it'll pop up (with just a black screen) for a second or two and then go away. The next time I click xScope, it loads up fine to the homepage. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
 
ok i got pin zoom figured out and i like that more than the original buttons.as for your features ranking list, I would rank copy paste as number 1...also just another suggestion... how about x spore without the file manager or task killer? I personally hate task managers and font use file managers... just my 2 cents
 
ttaylor0024 said:
ok i got pin zoom figured out and i like that more than the original buttons.as for your features ranking list, I would rank copy paste as number 1...also just another suggestion... how about x spore without the file manager or task killer? I personally hate task managers and font use file managers... just my 2 cents
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There is a copy feature. If you scroll right along the URL bar, you'll see a paper looking icon. Click that and you can now select and copy text.

As for your idea about removing the file manager and task killer... I might actually kind of agree with. I personally don't use it but at the same time, I don't mind having it there. However, for people who already have a file manager or a task killer, and they see that xScope comes with one, they're going to be more likely to think, "Oh I don't need that" (or so I would think). You could, however, make those separate from the browser and then in advertising the separate file manager and task killer, say it has special integration/functions with the xScope browser (if there can be). Just an idea.
 
RocknSteve said:
There is a copy feature. If you scroll right along the URL bar, you'll see a paper looking icon. Click that and you can now select and copy text.

As for your idea about removing the file manager and task killer... I might actually kind of agree with. I personally don't use it but at the same time, I don't mind having it there. However, for people who already have a file manager or a task killer, and they see that xScope comes with one, they're going to be more likely to think, "Oh I don't need that" (or so I would think). You could, however, make those separate from the browser and then in advertising the separate file manager and task killer, say it has special integration/functions with the xScope browser (if there can be). Just an idea.
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thanks! I cant keep up with all the upgrades (good thing) but x, I think that if you get a version with browser only and sell out for a buck out would just add another dimension...again just pondering the idea...
 
RocknSteve said:
When I downloaded the paid version, I've had just one hiccup that re-occurs. About half the time when I try to open xScope, it'll pop up (with just a black screen) for a second or two and then go away. The next time I click xScope, it loads up fine to the homepage. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
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Xscope,

I've been a fan (and a paid user) for awhile, but all of the sudden I'm experiencing this same problem. Probably started happening after one of the last downloads. Seems to happen when my phone has been asleep, and I wake it up and launch the browser. It acts like it is going to launch, the screen goes blank and returns me to the phone home page. I launch it again, and it launches fine.

While I love how responsive you are to your user community, I would encourage you to slow down just a bit and not necessarily implement every suggestion that comes your way from this site. The most important overall feature to me continues to be fast loading pages, and the excellent pinch and zoom capability. Please don't lose that!
 
My mistake on putting the task killer there. Although it does not affect performance and adds very little code, it just seems not belong well. What to do with this baggage??? I can't just simply remove it.

The file browser, I think, fits in the whole picture well though.

ttaylor0024 said:
ok i got pin zoom figured out and i like that more than the original buttons.as for your features ranking list, I would rank copy paste as number 1...also just another suggestion... how about x spore without the file manager or task killer? I personally hate task managers and font use file managers... just my 2 cents
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jim,
Thanks for the advice. I had one problem today with it. When I close a tab while there are others open, it suddenly closed all of them. But I couldn't figure out what was wrong. DDMS showed no exception whatsoever. So there might be a logic bug at large now.

jim0115 said:
Xscope,

I've been a fan (and a paid user) for awhile, but all of the sudden I'm experiencing this same problem. Probably started happening after one of the last downloads. Seems to happen when my phone has been asleep, and I wake it up and launch the browser. It acts like it is going to launch, the screen goes blank and returns me to the phone home page. I launch it again, and it launches fine.

While I love how responsive you are to your user community, I would encourage you to slow down just a bit and not necessarily implement every suggestion that comes your way from this site. The most important overall feature to me continues to be fast loading pages, and the excellent pinch and zoom capability. Please don't lose that!
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For $.99, google will charge something like $.60! (30c for onetime charge + 30% fee). Android market is just too small to support $.99 apps (a few exceptions). I bot quite some .99 apps and I feel sorry for the developers getting only 1/3 of it :)

ttaylor0024 said:
thanks! I cant keep up with all the upgrades (good thing) but x, I think that if you get a version with browser only and sell out for a buck out would just add another dimension...again just pondering the idea...
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Is this still happening? Thanks.

RocknSteve said:
When I downloaded the paid version, I've had just one hiccup that re-occurs. About half the time when I try to open xScope, it'll pop up (with just a black screen) for a second or two and then go away. The next time I click xScope, it loads up fine to the homepage. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!
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